100 days after the 'Amazon's Tiananmen', pressure mounts on government
One hundred days after the ‘Amazon’s Tiananmen’, international pressure on Peru’s government to overhaul its relationship with the country’s Indigenous population is mounting.
Latest news
A canoe for Survival and tribal peoples at the Canoe Slalom World Championships
A canoe for Survival and tribal peoples at the Canoe Slalom World Championships
Anglo-French oil company threatened with eviction by Amazon tribes
A giant Anglo-French oil project in Peru’s Amazon is at risk after the country’s Indians launched a court bid to stop it.
'No oil drilling without tribes' consent', UN tells Peru
The UN has told Peru’s government it should not allow oil and gas drilling on Indigenous peoples’ land without their ‘informed consent’.
Twelve Indians shot dead by armed men
Twelve members of the Awa tribe were shot dead yesterday, 26 August, by a group of unidentified armed men.
Call for napalm bombing of 'savages' wins Survival racism award
An article implying Peruvian Indians should be bombed with napalm has been named by human rights organisation Survival International as the ‘most racist article’ published in the last year by the mainstream media.
Logging protests spread in Borneo as nomads block roads
Protests by the Penan tribe in Borneo have escalated, with twelve villages coming together to mount new road blockades against the logging and plantation companies that are destroying their rainforest.
Maasai evicted and imprisoned to make way for safari hunting concession
Eight Maasai villages in the Loliondo region of Tanzania have been burnt to the ground, leaving 3,000 people without food, water or shelter.